Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the words were carefully conditional and hardly conciliatory, several governments with consulates in Hanoi were advised by the Communists that it was a "semaphoric" statement. Accordingly, they relayed to Washington the implication that an American bombing halt might result in peace talks. U.S. Hanoi-watchers were quick to note that the "could be" statement did not once refer to North Viet Nam's oft-repeated four-point conditions for negotiations; in particular, it did not mention the Viet Cong as a full-fledged negotiating partner from the start. Beyond that, there was a great deal of conjecture about...
...most Americans, the muffled drums and the somber eulogies were the only form of tribute left to offer Grissom, White and Chaffee. But to the stunned technicians of the Apollo program, there could be no more fitting service to the astronauts-the quick and the dead-than an exhaustive in quest on the burned-out spacecraft. To that end, a board of inquiry, headed by Floyd L. Thompson, director of NASA's Langley Research Center near Hampton, Va., embarked on an excruciatingly intricate search to discover the cause of the fatal blast...
Faced with the suggestion that their work is far too costly, spacemen are quick to point out that in any event, lunar funds are only a small portion of the national budget; they are not taken out of money meant for medical research or antipoverty drives. The truth is that, for all the intricate problems that must be met before man gets to the moon, planning the trip is far easier than organizing to fight poverty. For space, scientists can draw up a logical program; they have clear goals, few variants. It is lack of technique, not lack of money...
Olly, Winter, an American advisor to a South Vietnamese unit, is a tired man who has been through the Second World War and Korea; he is sick of war, the mud, the jungle, and the killing. Flashbacks paint his past in quick, terse strokes. When he watches the jungle rush beneath his helicopter, be thinks back to a train ride he took with his mother and sister, the countryside slipping by the window; when he stabs a Viet Cong guerrilla (who turns out to be a woman), he remembers being called a sissy in the school playground; when he buries...
...South Vietnamese troops, survives a rice-paddy fire-fight, and tries to out-run the Viet Cong through the jungle. He is followed by a Vietnamese beauty (Tina Chen) who saves his life, teaches him the ways of the jungle, falls in love with him. But what a quick re-run of the plot doesn't show is the intricate development of a subtle character...